Thoughts on AFI’s 10 Top 10

clever-title June 21, 2008 at 8:53 pm

I just checked the lists now to see if Moonstruck was on the RomCom list (we were watching “I love the 80’s vol N+1”). Checking the SciFi list was just as annoying. Back to the Future is on it, but Tron is not.

clever-title June 22, 2008 at 3:53 am

I just checked the lists now to see if Moonstruck was on the RomCom list (we were watching “I love the 80’s vol N+1”). Checking the SciFi list was just as annoying. Back to the Future is on it, but Tron is not.

Thom June 18, 2008 at 6:48 pm

I really enjoyed Greek Wedding and As Good As It Gets, but don’t think they are nearly as good as classics like Roman Holiday, Sabrina, It Happened One Night, etc. I honestly can’t think of anything from the 90s or beyond that I would put on the same level as those. Although I did just fire up my old Netflix account to give City Lights a try.

We’ll have to agree to disagree on animation, but trust me that pretty much any of them made since ’90 have been much more than just computer assisted.

Thom June 19, 2008 at 1:48 am

I really enjoyed Greek Wedding and As Good As It Gets, but don’t think they are nearly as good as classics like Roman Holiday, Sabrina, It Happened One Night, etc. I honestly can’t think of anything from the 90s or beyond that I would put on the same level as those. Although I did just fire up my old Netflix account to give City Lights a try.

We’ll have to agree to disagree on animation, but trust me that pretty much any of them made since ’90 have been much more than just computer assisted.

Chris June 18, 2008 at 1:24 pm

As for RomComs, When Harry Met Sally easily warrants #1 or #2 (next to Annie Hall). There are other worthy ones from 1990 onward (just a few that come to mind are My Big Fat Greek Wedding and As Good As It Gets).

As for the animation category, there are still traditionally animated movies coming out (they do have computer assistance, but I’m OK with that). In any case, look at their Western and Mystery lists and you’ll see that the tilt towards long ago decades anyway, so Animation wouldn’t be an anomaly.

grayflannelsuit June 18, 2008 at 8:24 pm

As for RomComs, When Harry Met Sally easily warrants #1 or #2 (next to Annie Hall). There are other worthy ones from 1990 onward (just a few that come to mind are My Big Fat Greek Wedding and As Good As It Gets).

As for the animation category, there are still traditionally animated movies coming out (they do have computer assistance, but I’m OK with that). In any case, look at their Western and Mystery lists and you’ll see that the tilt towards long ago decades anyway, so Animation wouldn’t be an anomaly.

Thom June 18, 2008 at 12:49 pm

I think they skipped the BIG genres because they already did top 100 lists for some of them (100 laughs, 100 romances, etc.). That’s all I could figure out, because otherwise “courtroom drama” is a tad too specific for my tastes.

As far as age goes, The Greatest Films actually complains that they list too many recent movies. Personally, Annie Hall is the only “recent” RomCom I would argue should be #1 and that’s from ’77. All of my other choices are from the 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s.

And I already know we disagree on CG movies, but think of it this way: if you want to ditch them from that category, you have to ignore every animated movie from around 1990 on. In other words, half of their top 10 would disappear.

Thom June 18, 2008 at 7:49 pm